I feel a bit bad, because I couldn't get myself to the cinema to watch Drag Me To Hell, but I did for Transformers 2. As an excuse, I woul say that in my current state I prefer to become deaf than being scared shitless... Anyway.
So I enjoyed the 1st one very much, funny bits included, strangely enough...
In true Bay style, this one takes things to 11. It's a far bigger movie. Unfortunately, it means that if the good things have become better, the faults have gone worse...
The humour is the main point of complaint. Sure, I said I enjoyed it in the 1st one. I did. It managed to walk that fine line for me that delimits what I find funny and justified in the context of the movie and what's not (from my point of view). Here it does cross the line. Humping dogs seen once might be just about OK, by the 3rd time, it's a bit tiring. Farting Decpticons? No thanks. Balls on Devastator? No thanks.
I read an interview of Bay where he said that he was surprised how people likes the humour of the 1st one. I guess it took this as an incentive to go further. Well it didn't work for me.
Also, no cliche is forgotten. You get those "Team America" moments. Mimes in France, to name but 1. Only here it's not Team America, so you can be sure it hasn't been done on purpose. So that makes so laughs, but that's in spite of the movie. Never a good sign...
Having said that it all happens in such a sensorial aggression that in a good mood (and with beers), you might just forgive all that (with clearer ideas, I'm not sure though).
And that's because apart from this, Bay brings the shit. And when he brings the shit, he brings the shit.
The action as some pretty awesome moments. The fights between robots are much clearer, longer (although still too short!) and more choreographed. It's seriously cool.
And it's very VERY good looking (especially Megan Fox ;) )...
On the robots, 1 thing that's cool is that you get some Megatron/Starscream bickering. So you get a bit of "character development" on that side. I only wish they did the same for the autobots, which bareloy have anything to say through the movie. The focus seems a bit too much on the humans... Come on, this is a TRANSFORMERS movie!!!
On a similar level, during the final set piece, Bay clearly unleashes his military fetish and almost seems to forget there are robots involved...
It's strange, but when coming straight out of the movie, I was feeling quite good, you know this feeling like you're walking with a power stance and a camera is filming you with a low-angle shot (I call that the Bay effect). I did enjoy myself.
And then I thought really about what I saw and felt a bit cheated.
I would think that somewhere in there cutting nearly 1h (I mean it lasts 2h30!!), there's a pretty strong (and "respectable") blockbuster. As it stands, because of all these annoyances and despite the much better action, it scores lower than the 1st...
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